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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You h...

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When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfis...

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I fix my grandchildren's computers.

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actua...

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Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fa...

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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and...

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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

So that's it. I've told you everything I know. Think clearly and think for yourself. Learn to use la...

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Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them...

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Aren't we lucky to be us?

I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives...

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At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. Wh...

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Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You h...

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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the st...

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us ...

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We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in t...

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I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia,...

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If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

How can I be so captured by my own imagination that I can truly connect both to the person I'm playi...

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Until I was twenty I was sure there was a being who could see everything I did and who didn't like m...

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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what...

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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a...

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I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for ...

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The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that t...

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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

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Alan Alda

Actor

Born: 1936-01-28

Died: N/A

Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is widely known for his roles as Captain Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H (1972-1983) and Arnold Vinick in The West Wing (2004-2006).More